How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the contemporary webspace hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market furnish absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web site hosting brand names across the world will offer you the very same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met all webspace hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side No.1: A foolish domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain)

Are you growing confused? We positively are!

Negative Point Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder system

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Disadvantage Number 3: A total absence of domain manipulation menus

Do we have to mention the complete absence of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a colossal predicament. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Disadvantage No.4: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction system (especially meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the eager users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel areas to learn... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web page hosting CP. It's a fine idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting providers:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...